Nilay Patel

You've talked even in this episode about wanting things to be private, not being part of the algorithmic ecosystem or the advertising ecosystem on YouTube. Google is big. They think so big that sometimes they let opportunities just slide away because they think it's such massive scale.

You've talked even in this episode about wanting things to be private, not being part of the algorithmic ecosystem or the advertising ecosystem on YouTube. Google is big. They think so big that sometimes they let opportunities just slide away because they think it's such massive scale.

You've talked even in this episode about wanting things to be private, not being part of the algorithmic ecosystem or the advertising ecosystem on YouTube. Google is big. They think so big that sometimes they let opportunities just slide away because they think it's such massive scale.

How are you thinking about competing with a YouTube at that scale when they seem to own so much of the attention space in video? I'll say it again.

How are you thinking about competing with a YouTube at that scale when they seem to own so much of the attention space in video? I'll say it again.

How are you thinking about competing with a YouTube at that scale when they seem to own so much of the attention space in video? I'll say it again.

There's another piece of that dynamic that I'm wondering if you are considering, which is that Google is a huge company that is under an enormous amount of pressure right now. And maybe so much pressure that it will be hard for the company to execute, right? There's an antitrust trial in this country that has resulted in the government suggesting that Google break itself up and sell Chrome.

There's another piece of that dynamic that I'm wondering if you are considering, which is that Google is a huge company that is under an enormous amount of pressure right now. And maybe so much pressure that it will be hard for the company to execute, right? There's an antitrust trial in this country that has resulted in the government suggesting that Google break itself up and sell Chrome.

There's another piece of that dynamic that I'm wondering if you are considering, which is that Google is a huge company that is under an enormous amount of pressure right now. And maybe so much pressure that it will be hard for the company to execute, right? There's an antitrust trial in this country that has resulted in the government suggesting that Google break itself up and sell Chrome.

There's a Donald Trump in the mix who may or may not make some sort of deal. There's a Donald Trump in the mix who's done a tariffs regime with China that has resulted in a Chinese antitrust investigation of Google, which is amazing because Google doesn't really operate in that country. Europe exists, much to the chagrin of many of our tech companies. there's just a lot going on, right?

There's a Donald Trump in the mix who may or may not make some sort of deal. There's a Donald Trump in the mix who's done a tariffs regime with China that has resulted in a Chinese antitrust investigation of Google, which is amazing because Google doesn't really operate in that country. Europe exists, much to the chagrin of many of our tech companies. there's just a lot going on, right?

There's a Donald Trump in the mix who may or may not make some sort of deal. There's a Donald Trump in the mix who's done a tariffs regime with China that has resulted in a Chinese antitrust investigation of Google, which is amazing because Google doesn't really operate in that country. Europe exists, much to the chagrin of many of our tech companies. there's just a lot going on, right?

There's a lot of pressure on Google to not flex that dominance. And then there's competitive pressure from the AI products, right? From chat GPT, from search GPT, from Bing to whatever extent that Microsoft believes that Bing is a real competitor to Google. Does that create an opening for you? Do you see that as a real opening or is that just, well, if those doors open, you'll be ready?

There's a lot of pressure on Google to not flex that dominance. And then there's competitive pressure from the AI products, right? From chat GPT, from search GPT, from Bing to whatever extent that Microsoft believes that Bing is a real competitor to Google. Does that create an opening for you? Do you see that as a real opening or is that just, well, if those doors open, you'll be ready?

There's a lot of pressure on Google to not flex that dominance. And then there's competitive pressure from the AI products, right? From chat GPT, from search GPT, from Bing to whatever extent that Microsoft believes that Bing is a real competitor to Google. Does that create an opening for you? Do you see that as a real opening or is that just, well, if those doors open, you'll be ready?

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We're back with Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer discussing what generative AI might do to video creation and how the attention economy can possibly sustain an even larger amount of AI-generated content. Let's talk about AI. I want to start by, again, asking sort of a mathematical question.

We're back with Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer discussing what generative AI might do to video creation and how the attention economy can possibly sustain an even larger amount of AI-generated content. Let's talk about AI. I want to start by, again, asking sort of a mathematical question.